Losing my cool : how a father's love and 15,000 books beat hip-hop culture / Thomas Chatterton Williams.
2010
E185.615 .W497 2010 (Mapit)
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Losing my cool : how a father's love and 15,000 books beat hip-hop culture / Thomas Chatterton Williams.
ISBN
9781594202636
159420263X
159420263X
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New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xii, 225 p. ; 22 cm.
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E185.615 .W497 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.235/108996073
Summary
Describes how the author's hip-hop culture radically contrasted with his book-loving father's endless pursuit of knowledge, revealing how the father-son bond eventually overcame the genre's rebellious messages.
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Table of Contents
The discovery of what it means to be a black boy
A wicked genie
What about your friends?
Street dreams (who am I to disagree?)
Slip the yoke
You can't go home again
Beginning to see the light
To a worm in a horseradish, the world is a horseradish
Every secret loses its force
Epilogue.
A wicked genie
What about your friends?
Street dreams (who am I to disagree?)
Slip the yoke
You can't go home again
Beginning to see the light
To a worm in a horseradish, the world is a horseradish
Every secret loses its force
Epilogue.